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Fighting like a girl
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 25/10/2015
» Rose’s perfectly-pencilled eyebrows, red lips and rosy cheeks are nothing unusual for a young ladyboy. With her delicate and feminine manner, she is only a few steps away from being completely female.
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Keeping faith in a quest for peace
Spectrum, Published on 30/08/2015
» Sama-ae Thanam looked thoughtful when asked what he had pondered the most during all the years he spent in prison. The former senior member of the Patani United Liberation Organisation (Pulo), who was released from prison last month, said, “Of course, I cannot deny thinking about my personal life.
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Bangkok’s baffling booze ban
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 02/08/2015
» By 7pm, the six employees of the Hunsa bar had gathered around the white wooden table to eat their home-made kanom jeen, a dish consisting of rice vermicelli served with curry.
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Subs plan tests navy to sink or swim
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 09/08/2015
» It has been 64 years since the Royal Thai Navy decommissioned their four submarines in 1951, but when they first expressed their desire to purchase a new fleet from Sweden in 1995, they ended up empty-handed due to insufficient funds.
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Philippine island of 120 stares down China’s military might
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/07/2015
» MANILA — On a clear night, the Filipinos who live on Pagasa Island — a speck in the vast South China Sea — can see the floodlights from giant Chinese cranes working around the clock, dredging sand to build on a nearby reef.
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Children use dolls to practise beheading in IS training camp
News, Published on 21/07/2015
» The children each received a doll and a sword. Then they were lined up, more than 120 of them, and given their next lesson by their Islamic State (IS) group instructors: Behead the doll.
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Teaching peace amid death in the deep South
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 03/05/2015
» ‘We were building good citizens for a stronger nation, you came and tore them down,” said the rector of Fatoni University. “We have been left devastated.”
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Out of the jungle, but left in the wilderness
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 31/05/2015
» Sathien Jaiping has made the long journey to Government House almost every month since 2009, carrying a two-inch-thick spiral-bound stack of documents containing what he believes are the names of more than 2,000 former communist insurgents.
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Just a blip on the junta’s radar?
Spectrum, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 31/05/2015
» Accidental heroes or not, dozens of university students arrested in the heart of the capital on the anniversary of the coup just over a week ago have rattled the Goliath junta. Acts of defiance were expected as the coup-installed military government had declared it would stay in power at least for the remainder of the year.
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Pirates on the high seas threaten Asean
Spectrum, Published on 17/05/2015
» One of the most dangerous maritime zones in the world is not so far from home. While piracy off Somalia is in decline, thanks largely to international naval cooperation, attacks in the South China Sea have risen in the past few years, raising concerns over a new type of security threat to the region and an economic challenge to Asean countries.
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